Tag: U.S. Customs and Border Protection
US border encounters of migrant families rise despite heat
PHOENIX — U.S. officials say the number of migrant families they encountered at the border in June increased by 25% from the previous month...
More US citizens apprehended for moving drugs over border
PHOENIX — An increasing number of American citizens have been apprehended as they have tried to smuggle illegal drugs into the U.S. since the...
US blocks seafood from Chinese fleet for mistreating crew
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government blocked imports of seafood Friday from the fleet of a Chinese company that authorities say forced crew members to...
Many wait uneasily as Biden unwinds key Trump asylum policy
SAN DIEGO — In March of 2020, Estela Lazo appeared before Immigration Judge Lee O’Connor with her two children, her muscles tensed and a...
Border Patrol tent facility in Texas evacuated by storm
DONNA, Texas — A compound of tents to detain migrant children and families was evacuated for hours when struck by fierce winds in Texas'...
Migrant children held in mass shelters with little oversight
The Biden administration is holding tens of thousands of asylum-seeking children in an opaque network of some 200 facilities that The Associated Press has...
Top Glove hopes to resolve U.S. seizure of its rubber gloves
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia's Top Glove Corp., the world's largest rubber glove maker, said Wednesday it hopes to swiftly end a U.S. ban...
Customs: Woman hid cocaine in shoes at Atlanta airport
ATLANTA — A Georgia woman was caught trying to smuggle $40,000 worth of cocaine in multiple pairs of shoes through the Atlanta airport, according...
US under Biden will no longer call migrants ‘illegal aliens’
WASHINGTON — Employees of the two main U.S. immigration enforcement agencies were directed Monday to stop referring to migrants as “aliens,” a dated term...
ACLU border checkpoint lawsuit to proceed
CONCORD, N.H. — A federal judge is allowing a lawsuit challenging the use of checkpoints by the U.S. Border Patrol nearly 100 miles from...